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Yau Yiu-wai, fifth-gen owner of a Hong Kong umbrella store, on shutting shop despite his lifelong obsession

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Will the art that collector Uli Sigg donated to Hong Kong museum M+ finally be judged on its merits?

“Fragments of History” (2012) by Manuel Salvisberg, a triptych showing Uli Sigg dropping an antique urn that Ai Weiwei had painted over with the Coca Cola logo. Photo: M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong/Manuel Salvisberg 

Sigg with crates of the artwork he donated at the M+ museum. Photo: M+, Hong Kong/Lok Cheng

Sigg in front of the M+ building. Photo: M+, Hong Kong/Dan Leung

‘Fragments of History’ (2012) by Manuel Salvisberg, a triptych showing Sigg dropping an antique urn that Ai Weiwei had painted over with the Coca-Cola logo. Photo: M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong/Manuel Salvisberg

‘Whitewash’ by Ai Weiwei. Photo: Ai Weiwei

Zhang Hongzan’s ‘Divert Water from the Milky Way Down’ (1974). Photo: M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong/Zhang Hongzan, Chen Yulan

When Uli Sigg donated the bulk of his Chinese contemporary art collection to Hong Kong’s M+ museum in 2012, little did he know the controversy it would cause.


Rirkrit Tiravanija defends his pad thai performance art piece ahead of its revival at Hong Kong gallery

Artist Rirkrit Tiravanija is unrepentant about his performance art. Photo: Daniel Dorsa/David Zwirner

Rirkrit Tiravanija’s first presentation of his artwork called untitled (pad thai) at the Paula Allen Gallery in New York in 1990. A former assistant will present it at the David Zwirner Galleyr in Hong Kong. Photo: Paula Allen Gallery/Rirkrit Tiravanija

Rirkrit Tiravanija’s first presentation of his artwork called untitled (pad thai) at the Paula Allen Gallery in New York in 1990. A former assistant will present it at the David Zwirner Gallery in Hong Kong. Photo: Paula Allen Gallery/Rirkrit Tiravanija

Rirkrit Tiravanija presents his artwork untitled (pad thai) to guests at the Paula Allen Gallery, New York, in 1990. Photo: Paula Allen Gallery/Rirkrit Tiravanija

Rirkrit’s work untitled 2016 (freedom cannot be simulated, south china morning post, September 26-27-28-29-30, 2014). Photo: Jens Ziehe/courtesy of Neugerriemschneider, Berlin

The Land Foundation in Chiang Mai, Thailand, which Rirkrit co-founded to promote sustainability.

Rirkrit Tiravanija’s 1992 artwork untitled (free), whichi consisted of the artist serving curry in New York’s 303 Gallery. Photo: 303 Gallery/Rirkrit Tiravanija

His work has been called inaccessible, elitist, even ridiculous, but Thai artist who created artwork that consists of cooking and serving Thai noodle dish pad thai says it not his fault the market co-opted his anti-capitalist gesture.


Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts director Gillian Choa on her varied career and her views on arts education

Professor Gillian Choa, director of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Photo: May Tse

Gillian Choa as a child in a choir performance in the 1960s. Photo: Professor Gillian Choa

Choa in the mid-1980s, when she was the resident designer for Chung Ying Theatre Company. Photo: Professor Gillian Choa

A young Choa at the HK Music & Speech Festival where she won a prize for solo verse-speaking. Photo: Professor Gillian Choa

Choa (doing a back bend on the left) performed ballet and acrobatics from a young age. Photo: Professor Gillian Choa

The new director of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Gillian Choa, tells Fionnuala McHugh about growing up in the city and her varied early career that led her into arts education.


The Art Museum in Modern Times: Charles Saumarez Smith’s world tour of ‘new’ institutes that have shaped the art viewing experience

Mona, the Museum of Old and New Art, in Hobart, Australia, offers a “viscerally experiential” trip. Photo: Courtesy of MONA Museum of Old and New Art

The Art Museum in Modern Times by Charles Saumarez Smith. Photo: Handout

Architectural historian Charles Saumarez Smith visits 43 ‘new’ institutes on a mission to interpret their design and understand how they have shaped the experience of looking at art.


Asia’s Best Female Chef 2021 DeAille Tam on winning the award, her Michelin star and why ‘food is edible art’

Hong Kong-born DeAille Tam is executive chef and co-founder of Obscura in Shanghai. She was recently awarded Asia’s Best Female Chef 2021 by Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants. Photo: Obscura

Hunan pepper and beef served at Obscura, Shanghai. Photo: Obscura

Bites of Spring, a dish at Obscura. Photo: Obscura

The interior of Tam’s Obscura restaurant in Shanghai. Photo: Obscura

DeAille Tam, the Hong Kong-born executive chef and co-founder of Obscura in Shanghai, talks about being voted Asia’s Best Female Chef 2021, her Michelin star and why cooking is a form of artistic expression.


Chinese tourists look forward to visiting Europe’s museums and galleries again, and the feeling is mutual

Galleries and museums (including the British Museum, above) are reopening to the public after months of closure during the pandemic. Photo: Richard Baker/In Pictures via Getty Images

A Kandinsky exhibition in augmented reality, Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. Photo: Centre Pompidou

A Fliggy-facilitated two-hour VIP tour of the Palace of Versailles in France. Photo: Fliggy.

A Wassily Kandinsky exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Shanghai’s West Bund Museum is part of the French Embassy’s Croisements Festival cultural exchange. Photo: Centre Pompidou

An artwork by John Andrew Perello, also known as JonOne. The green marks in the centre are the work of two viewers who thought they were supposed to add to the painting. Photo: Lee Jae-hee/Yonhap via AP

Chinese tourists are known for their love of foreign art galleries and museums, which have had to survive without millions of physical visitors over the past year by moving online. Now, they await the tourists’ return.


How an interior designer keeps his Hong Kong studio fresh and uplifting

Wherever you look in JJ Acuna’s studio there is something to admire, from jagged raw crystals on tabletops to flexible bookshelves functioning almost as a gallery wall. Photo: John Butlin. Photography assistant: Timothy Tsang

Photo: John Butlin

Interior designer JJ Acuna’s 1,200 sq ft rented studio in Chai Wan is filled with places in which to work, relax and socialise, and he keeps things fresh by rotating furniture and works of art every year.


Chinese art rebels, the Lingnan School bucked centuries of inherited wisdom with its bold use of colour

Plum Blossoms and Bird by Zhao Shao’ang (1905-1998), considered one of the most famous and influential artists of the Lingnan School of Chinese art. Credit: Zhao Shao’ang

Woodpecker (1927) by Gao Qifeng (1889-1933), one of the founders of the Lingnan School. Credit: Getty Images / Gao Qifeng

The Lingnan School developed a bold and progressive style of painting in the early 20th century, rejecting the long tradition of austere black-and-white works.


Art and sexual taboos: when Hong Kong Museum of Art censors local works, what does it say about equality and inclusion?

A still from ‘Rati version 3.2’ (2001) by Phoebe Man Ching-ying. Photo: Phoebe Man Ching-ying

The age warning for ‘Rati version 3.2’ (2001) at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Photo: Phoebe Man Ching-yin

Man’s video is hidden behind a curtain at the museum and has an age restriction warning, as opposed to paintings by ‘Masters’ that often depict nudity. Photo: Phoebe Man Ching-ying

Rati version 3.2 (2001) by Phoebe Man Ching-ying is an award-winning work which captures the absurdity of how women are objectified as sex objects in online chat rooms and beyond. Photo: Phoebe Man Ching-ying

An award-winning feminist video, showing a young lady wearing a vagina-shaped costume, is displayed behind a curtain with an age restriction warning sign in the Hong Kong Museum of Art. This says much about inclusion and equality.


Post invites artists to mint NFTs for charity auction to help Operation Santa Claus appeal

The Operation Santa Claus logo.

Evie Chan (aka Mooncasket) is one of the Hong Kong artists who have been invited by the Post to mint NFTs for an auction later in the year in aid of Operation Santa Claus, the charity jointly run by the newspaper and RTHK since 1988. Photo: Instagram/@mooncasket

Kwok Mang-ho (aka Frog King) at his studio at Cattle Depot Artist Village, To Kwa Wan.

Artist Natalie Wong (aka Papersneaker). Photo: Instagram/@jPapersneaker

Visual artist Rainbow Tse at the Asia Contemporary Art Show Hong Kong at The Conrad hotel in Admiralty.

Artist Ophelia Jacarini. Photo: Instagram/@jacariniophelia

The NFT art market has taken off, and the Post has invited Hong Kong artists to mint some of the digital tokens of authenticity to promote their work and, when auctioned later this year, help the annual Operation Santa Claus appeal.


Art on a plate from Dalloyau, French Gourmay food festival meals and deals from Grand Hyatt Hong Kong and La Table brasserie

A painting by Cheng Chin-man on a Dalloyau opera cake at Dalloyau in IFC Mall, Central. Photo: Cheng Chin-man

A Dalloyau opera cake featuring artwork by Cho Kwok-ting. Photo: Cho Kwok-ting

A dish in the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong’s staycation package. Photo: Grand Hyatt Hong Kong

Paris mushroom duxelles paired with baked scallops at La Table French Brasserie in Tsim Sha Shui.

Charolais beef served with confit vegetables and bordelaise sauce at La Table French Brasserie. Photo: La Table French Brasserie

The return of Art Basel Hong Kong and the month-long French GourMay food festival inspire restaurants to present some special offerings.


Venice 2021: Hong Kong’s ambition on show at the architecture biennale, while titanium sculptor Wallace Chan keeps faith with the Italian city

Handout image shows artwork by Wallace Chan, A Dialogue between Materials and Time I, 2020. Courtesy of the artist.&#xA;&#xA;CREDIT: Wallace Chan

An advert for the Biennale Architettura 2021 on Venice’s Palazzo San Giustinian in Italy. Photo: John Brunton

Advert for Wallace Chan’s “Titans” exhibition on the Fondaco Marcello. Photo: John Brunton

Artist’s impressions of the booths that will be at the Hong Kong pavilion at the Architecture Biennale. Photo: Architecture Biennale

Hong Kong artist Wallace Chan. Photo: Courtesy of Wallace Chan

A Dialogue between Materials and Time I (2020) by Wallace Chan. Photo: Courtesy of Wallace Chan

 A Dialogue between Materials and Time V (2020) by Wallace Chan. Photo: Courtesy of Wallace Chan

 Dialogue between Materials and Time XIII (2020) by Wallace Chan. Photo: Courtesy of Wallace Chan

Empty canals in Venice as the pandemic continues to take its toll. Photo: John Brunton

 Dialogue between Materials and Time II (2020) by Wallace Chan. Photo: Courtesy of Wallace Chan

An advert for the Biennale Archiitettura 2021, “How Will We Live Together?”, in Venice. Photo: John Brunton

The Hong Kong pavilion’s architectural ambitions are likely to take Venice Biennale visitors’ breath away, while jeweller Wallace Chan’s beautiful titanium sculptures reflect his life’s journey.


How to make Thai shrimp paste fried rice: khao kluk kapi is colourful and bursting with flavour

Thai shrimp paste fried rice (khao kluk kapi) a colourful dish bursting with flavour. Photo: Jonathan Wong

The ingredients for Thai shrimp paste fried rice (khao kluk kapi). Photo: Jonathan Wong

Braise the pork belly strips. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Stir-fry the dried shrimp until they are pale brown. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Stir-fry the rice with the shrimp paste. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Arrange the ingredients on the plate around the rice. Photo: Jonathan Wong

This Thai dish is simple to make, colourful and so full of flavour that every bite tastes different. Once the pork belly is cooked and ingredients prepared, it can be made in no time.


From Cai Guo-qiang’s fireworks to a Boston heist and more, art documentaries on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and BBC First

The Billion Dollar Art Hunt on BBC First is one of many art documentaries available to watch. Photo: BBC First

Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-qiang by Kevin Macdonald.

A scene from Abstract – The Art of Design. Photo: Netflix

Christoph Niemann in Abstract – The Art of Design. Photo: Netflix

A scene from My Dear Art. Photo: Amazon Prime

Netflix and BBC First both revisit the unsolved 1990 theft of art worth US$500 million from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, while My Dear Art on Amazon Prime explores the growing power of the Asian art market.


The landmark arts festival hit by a sudden flood that had artists grabbing for their favourite pictures

Visitors admire Christopher Webb’s abstract design at the Hong Kong’s Festival of the Arts in 1955.

A modernistic work by 10-year-old Nicholas Newton-Dunn at the 1955 Festival of the Arts. The piece won second prize in the children’s painting competition.

Then Hong Kong Governor Alexander Grantham and Lady Grantham study exhibits at the 1955 Festival of the Arts.

Artists grabbed for their favourite pictures as floodwaters washed in from torrential rains during the 1955 Festival of the Arts, billed as the first cultural event of its kind.


Talk Art: Russell Tovey and Robert Diament attempt to make contemporary art more accessible

Russell Tovey (front) and Robert Diament, authors of Talk Art: Everything You Wanted to Know About Contemporary Art but Were Afraid to Ask.

Talk Art – Everything You Wanted to Know About Contemporary Art but Were Afraid to Ask by Russell Tovey and Robert Diament. Photo: Handout

Russell Tovey and Robert Diament attempt to make contemporary art more accessible and are unashamed to address any question, however naive.


An artist’s response to coronavirus: Indonesian Christine Ay Tjoe imagines us dying a temporary death

Christine Ay Tjoe reaches into her pandemic experiences for her first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, “Spinning in the Desert”. Photo: Wowo Wahono

Blue Cryptobiosis #12 (2021). Photo: Christine Ay Tjoe/White Cube

Oil sticks in Christine Ay Tjoe’s Indonesian studio. Photo: Wowo Wahono

Blue Cryptobiosis #11 (2021). Photo: Christine Ay Tjoe/White Cube

Christine Ay Tjoe at work. Photo: Wowo Wahono

Blue Cryptobiosis #08 (2021). Photo: Christine Ay Tjoe/White Cube

Christine Ay Tjoe sees the pandemic forcing us to put our ambitions on hold, rather as animals shut down and wait for better conditions – a state she depicts in her first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, ‘Spinning in the Desert’.


This Post Magazine series marks the return of Art Basel in May, looks ahead to the opening of the M+ museum, and previews the South China Morning Post's charity NFT project with Operation Santa Claus.


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